Word: mason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Florida. Though Brooklyn-born and Yale-educated, Governor David ("Dave") Sholtz, 41, boosts his state like a native. Round-faced and jovial, he is a Daytona Beach lawyer, an Elk, a Mason, an American Legionary, a Rotarian. His campaign speeches drew men from barbers' chairs with lather still on their faces...
Technocracy, the nation's newest fad, is a theory formulated not by a group of scientists carrying out investigations in a scientific way, but merely by a group of faddists, eager to put a few startling and unreliable figures before a depression struck people," said E. S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, in an interview yesterday. "It shows what a love of fads the people of the United States have, but you can't blame anyone for turning to any new panacea, however dubious, in a depression of this sort...
...There are two aspects to this new theory, a critical or negative one, and the constructive one," Mason continued. "I should say that the critical point of view is that the rate of technical change is so rapid that the price system offers inadequate possibilities of reabsorption for the laborers thrown out of work by economic change. The technocrats spend their time in drawing up charts to show that the price system is doomed and that unemployment will continue even in good times. But there are so many difficulties in getting accurate figures from which conclusions may be drawn that...
...already an Elk, Odd Fellow, 32nd degree Mason and joiner of a score more clubs and societies, joined the Improved Order of Red Men and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon in 1930, the American Philatelic Society and the Academic Diplomatique Internationale in 1931, etc. etc., the Maccabees last week. ¶ How, after winning the nomination last July on the fourth ballot, he dramatically flew to Chicago to address the convention. ¶ How he campaigned 12,000 mi. during September and October. ¶ How he was elected Nov. 8 by 22,813,786 votes to Hoover...
...opera house regarded him as a financial wizard who could do no wrong. The News found that the once high-priced Rosa Raisa had lost all that she had, was in straitened circumstances along with such investors as Conductor Giorgio Polacco & wife (Soprano Edith Mason), Conductors Emil Cooper. Egon Pollak. Roberto Moranzoni, Baritone Cesare Formichi, Stage Manager Otto Erhardt...